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Goats on Belmont are headed for Lents Town Center

Belmont goats will move in the next month

Bishop Lennon, another caretaker, greets Cooper on a visit with the herd. The Belmont goats, an urban herd that has been residing in an empty lot in Southeast Portland, are set to relocate in the coming months.
(Emily Jan/The Oregonian)

Caretaker Christopher Frankonis said he and the other volunteer caretakers still need to meet with the PDC and work out the details, such as when the goats will move and how long they will stay.

Lents is farther from the city center than Frankonis and other caretakers had hoped for, he said, but they were encouraged by the enthusiasm of the neighborhood's residents. He said several Lents residents reached out to them with hopes to draw the heard to the Lents Town Center. It was the first location the caretakers had considered that garnered neighborhood support.

"It will be nice to move into a neighborhood where people are ready to go, ready to support us," he said. "It seemed like the stars were aligning in such a way that it would have been stupid not to submit a proposal."

The caretakers will eventually be looking for volunteers to help build a shelter, benches and other structures on the property, he said, as well as neighbors willing to help care for the herd. The goal is to make the goats as accessible to the public as possible he said, which would mean having volunteer caretakers on site regularly to facilitate interaction.

But first things first. The caretakers have some details to work out before they worry about volunteers.